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Tcpdump

Software & technology · O*NET

Tcpdump is a software tool tracked in the Network monitoring software category of O*NET's Technology Skills file. It appears in the technology profile of 5 occupations that together employ about 1,260,840 workers, with a median wage of $108,970.

Across the occupations that use it, the work is 89th percentile for AI task-exposure (High) — how much of what those jobs do overlaps with what today's AI can attempt. That measures the exposure of the work, not the value of the tool or any sign it is being replaced. See where every tool category sits →

Occupations that use this tool

Occupations whose O*NET technology profile lists Tcpdump, ranked by employment. Wage and employment are BLS OEWS (national, cross-industry, May 2024) and describe the occupation, not an individual or the tool's own market.

Occupation Workers Median pay
Information Security Engineers 439,380 $108,970
Network and Computer Systems Administrators 318,570 $96,800
Information Security Analysts 179,430 $124,910
Computer Network Architects 177,010 $130,390
Computer Network Support Specialists 146,450 $73,340
Exposure quadrant: AI task-overlap percentile vs Median pay AI task-overlap (horizontal) versus median pay (vertical), each as a percentile across all scored occupations, for 5 occupations in occupations that use Tcpdump. Overlap measures shared tasks with AI, not automation. Lower overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · lower pay Lower overlap · lower pay Computer Network Support Specialists Information Security Analysts Network and Computer Systems Administrators Information Security Engineers AI task-overlap percentile → ↑ Median pay
Occupations that use Tcpdump, by AI task-overlap and median pay

Related tools

Other software in the Network monitoring software category.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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Plain

Singulariki. "Tcpdump." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/software/tcpdump

APA

Singulariki. (2026). Tcpdump. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/software/tcpdump

BibTeX 
@misc{singulariki-tcpdump,
  title  = {Tcpdump},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/software/tcpdump}
}

Citations name the underlying public dataset releases — they reflect what this page is built from, not just the URL.